FESCo Proposal for blocking older version of autoconf & automake

[Jesse Keating]

On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 23:43 -0400, Casey Dahlin wrote:
> The gain is we decide what to keep and what not to keep based on who 
> actually is willing to fight to keep it around rather than whoever feels 
> like complaining on devel list. Its a corollary to "its easier to 
> apologize than to ask permission," the people who notice the change are 
> a tiny and far more important subset than the people who will complain 
> ahead of time.

It doesn't account for the developers who will have failures, notice we
don't package a version of autoconf anymore and say "Screw that" and
move to some other development platform which does support what they
need.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
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